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Otto Penzler and the Mystery Writers of America Present A Time of Predators by Joe Gores, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun. They roughed up a man they thought was a homosexual--but their game got out of hand and their victim was blinded.
It was Paula Halstead's bad luck to witness the attack and catch a glimpse of one of the boys. After they got through with her, she killed herself.
The police have no leads and can't find the culprits. Paula's husband hires a private investigator to do what the police haven't been able to-with no success.
Curt Halstead refuses to give up; he will have his vengeance on the men who raped and tortured his wife, even if it means entering into their world of sex, violence, and murder.
The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun. They roughed up a man they thought was a homosexual--but their game got out of hand and their victim was blinded.
It was Paula Halstead's bad luck to witness the attack and catch a glimpse of one of the boys. After they got through with her, she killed herself.
The police have no leads and can't find the culprits. Paula's husband hires a private investigator to do what the police haven't been able to-with no success.
Curt Halstead refuses to give up; he will have his vengeance on the men who raped and tortured his wife, even if it means entering into their world of sex, violence, and murder.
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Joe Gores is the author of the acclaimed DKA series of street-level crime and detection, as well as the stunning suspense novels Dead Man and Menaced Assassin. Born in 1931, he served in the U.S. Army writing biographies of generals at the Pentagon, was educated at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford, and spent twelve years as a San Francisco private investigator. The author of dozens of novels, screenplays, and television scripts, he has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards and Japan's Maltese Falcon Award. He lives in northern California.
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"Gores is dogged and brilliant."--Donald Westlake
"[Joe Gores] is exceptional." --Playboy
"If Joe Gores isn't in a class of his own, he's about to invent one." --Rocky Mountain News
"Savage."--Saturday Review
"A modern-day Hammett."--Mario Taboada
"Gores is the master of many voices."--Kirkus
"A seasoned master."--Booklist
"A versatile crime writer."--Publishers Weekly
"[Joe Gores] is exceptional." --Playboy
"If Joe Gores isn't in a class of his own, he's about to invent one." --Rocky Mountain News
"Savage."--Saturday Review
"A modern-day Hammett."--Mario Taboada
"Gores is the master of many voices."--Kirkus
"A seasoned master."--Booklist
"A versatile crime writer."--Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherForge Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0765310503
- ISBN 13 9780765310507
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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